The European Commission says Internet hosts should pre-censor everything we upload to the Internet for copyright violations. The UK agrees. Tell the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) we don’t want rights holders to monitor and filter the Internet!

This month's newsletter looks at the Govenment's plan to censor thousands of legal adult websites and what we are doing to oppose these proposals. We also explain how we are going to fight the Govenment's decision to pass the IP Act, the most extreme surveillance law in UK history.
As always, we cannot do this work without your support. The next few years will be some of the most difficult and important we have had yet.

Transport for London is running a trial that uses people's mobile phones to track crowd movement around 54 London Underground stations. We think they have to do a better job of communicating to passengers what the trial is, what the data will be used for, and how people can opt out.

Over the last two years, ORG has taken parts in discussions about data sharing with the Government, convened by the Cabinet Office. This included examining ways for low income households to get support with their energy bills.

When you legislate at break-neck speed, and fail to consult, things will go wrong. This is absolutely the case with Age Verification (AV) in the Digital Economy Bill, which now seems set to include website blocking to bolster use of AV technologies. This is likely to lead to high risks of credit card fraud and privacy abuse.

Parliament has voted to create a new national censor, that can block websites without a court order. The government wants it to censor adult websites that don’t offer “age verification”—and censor “non-conventional” content on those sites that do.

Parliament has voted to create a new national censor, that can block websites without a court order. The government wants it to censor adult websites that don’t offer “age verification”—and censor “non-conventional” content on those sites that do.

Parliament has voted to create a new national censor, that can block websites without a court order. The government wants it to censor adult websites that don’t offer “age verification”—and censor “non-conventional” content on those sites that do.

This month we have been campaigning on the Digital Economy Bill, giving evidence to the UK government about our concerns, and creating a series of videos explaining what needs to change in the Bill. We have also been continuing to challenge the Investigatory Powers Bill in the House of Lords.
Thank you for helping to inform our work and carrying out our campaigns to ensure that our rights to privacy and free speech online are protected.

The government’s proposal for age verification to access pornograpy is running out of control. MPs have worked out that attempts to verify adult’s ages won’t stop children from accessing other pornographic websites: so their proposed answer is to start censoring these websites.

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